What started as a single department store in San Lorenzo, California, erupted into a West Coast empire. Selling work pants and school clothes, the department store was frequented by middle-class families. At its peak,Mervyn's had 300 stores in 16 states. Eventually, owner Mervin Morris sold...
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Teddy Rooseveltannounced in 1912 that he would run for president against his former VP,William Howard Taft, Brown Brothers sent photographerCharles Duprezto Oyster Bay to take this famous photo; President Taft and his wife,Helen “Nellie” Taft, in 1909; famed New York Giants pitcherChristy Mathe...
To create the effect of invisibility, Rains was covered head to foot with black velvet tights and wore whatever clothes he required for the scene. The invisibility scenes were then shot against a black set, the negative areas later manually masked to create the effect of invisibility. (IMDB) ...
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“I thought it was time to show my ethics to New York and to say we have enough clothes, enough stuff, we don’t need to make new things,” he said, showing off a silk gabardine jacket with 3D ornaments created from cut-up plastic bottles, broken ceramics, upcycled pin-back buttons ...
CLOTHES OPTIONAL…A 1934 brochure offered glimpses of the entertainment to be had at the new theatre/restaurant Casino de Paree. The Casino de Paree’s menu gave patrons some idea of what could be expected on the stage… (The Culinary Institute of America Menu Collection) …but if food and...
CLOTHES OPTIONAL…A 1934 brochure offered glimpses of the entertainment to be had at the new theatre/restaurant Casino de Paree. The Casino de Paree’s menu gave patrons some idea of what could be expected on the stage… (The Culinary Institute of America Menu Collection) …but if food and...
He described what he did, which was, of course, the candelabra, the clothes and the purring voice. “Hello my dear I’m back to playing your favorite melodies for you. And I hope everything is going well with you.” It was a very personal kind of thing. I’ve never seen a kinesc...
Clothes spun from cotton have been around for thousands of years, but this B. Altman advertisement suggests they were relatively novel for summer wear, at least among the upper orders. Both men and women wore wool bathing suits up until the 1930s, so perhaps there was something new about th...